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Designing disorder

Nature Photonics volume 12, pages 59–60 (2018)Cite this article

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Metasurfaces can in principle provide a versatile platform for optical functionalities, but in practice designing and fabricating them to specifications can be difficult. Now, the realization of metasurfaces with engineered disorder allows for versatile optical components that combine the best features of periodic and random systems.

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Fig. 1: Engineered disordered metasurfaces.

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